Derigible headlight for vehicles.



W. R. PETTY.

DIRGIBLB HEADLIGHT FOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED APR.5,1912.

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Lamm 'WALLACE R. BETTY, OF PRICE, UTAH'.

DIRIGIBLE HEADLIG-HT FOR VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 21,1913.

Application filed April 5, 1912. Serial No. 688,800.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WALLACE R. Pn'r'rr, a citizen ofthe United States,residing at Price, i'n the county of Carbon and State of Utah, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Dirigible Headlights forVehicles, of which the following is a specification. y

My invention relates to dirigible head lights or lamps used onautomobiles, and ,has for its object to provide an inexpensive headlight or lamp pedestal mounted or carried on an automobile, and means 0fturning thepedestal, by which the rays of light. from said lamp aredirected or thrown in front of and in the directionin which theautomobile is going. rl`hese' objects I accomplish by the deviceillustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar letters ofreference indicate like parts therein and as described in thespecification forming a part of this application.

Figure 1 is a fragmentary plan View of the chassis of an automobile withthe' lamps or head lights mounted on my pedestals and connected with thesteering apparatus of said automobile. Fig. 2 is an elevation of thepedestals. F ig. 3 is a vertical section of one of the pedestals. Fig. 4is a side elevation of the device and a fragmentary.

view of the front portion of an automobile.

My device consists of standar-dsl which are mounted on the frame of anautomobile either in front, or one on each side as desired. 0n the upperportion of each of said standards is formed a shoulder 2 having anannular V-shaped or troughlike groove 3 therein within which are'carried friction balls 4.- On the upper end of each of said standards isscrewed a nut 5. Carried on each of said standards is a sleeve G, withinthe upper end of which is secured the hearing 7, fitted on said frictionballs 4. Upwardly extended lamp brackets 8 are attached to each of saidsleeves 6 on which the lamps 9 are detachably secured. A band 10 isattached on each of said sleeves and has an extended arm 1l thereon. Thearms 11 are connected by the pivoted turnbuckle 12, in order that thelimited ro-.

tation of one of said sleeves will be thc same as that. of the other,and a turnbuckle is used to adapt the device to machines of differentwidths. On one of said sleeves is another band 13 similar to the bands10 having an arm 14 extended therefrom at practically right angles tothe said arms 11, to which arms 14 the steering mechanism of theautomobile is connected by the swivel link 15.

As will be obvious the' turning ofthe frontwheels .of the automobile bythesteering mechanism will at the same time turn the lamps so that thelight will be directed on the road in front of the wheels and on whichthe carriage will soon be running and not necessarily longitudinallywith the car.

, Having thus described my device I desire to secure by-Letters Patentand claim A dirigible head light for road vehicles consisting ofvertical standards mounted on the frame of the vehicle; a sleeve carriedand rotative on each of said standards; ball bearing supports for said'sleeves; lamps mounted on said sleeves and movable therewith; bandssecured around said sleeves; outwardly extended arms integral with saidbands; a turnbuckle pivotally linking the arm of one sleeve to the armof the other sleeve; and an adjustable link connect-ing one of said armswith the steering mechanism of said vehicle.

In testimony whereof I have atiixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WALLACE It. PETTY.

